Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?

General references

Bible References

When wicked

1 Kings 2:32
And Jehovah will return his blood upon his own head, because he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, and my father David knew it not, to wit , Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.
Proverbs 25:26
As a troubled fountain, and a corrupted spring,'so is a righteous man that giveth way before the wicked.
Habakkuk 1:4
Therefore the law is slacked, and justice doth never go forth; for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore justice goeth forth perverted.
1 John 3:12
not as Cain was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

Require

2 Samuel 3:27
And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
Genesis 9:5
And surely your blood, the blood of your lives, will I require; At the hand of every beast will I require it. And at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, will I require the life of man.
Exodus 21:12
He that smiteth a man, so that he dieth, shall surely be put to death.
Numbers 35:31
Moreover ye shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer, that is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.
Psalm 9:12
For he that maketh inquisition for blood remembereth them; He forgetteth not the cry of the poor.

From

Genesis 4:11
And now cursed art thou from the ground, which hath opened its mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
Genesis 6:13
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Genesis 7:23
And every living thing was destroyed that was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only was left, and they that were with him in the ark.
Exodus 9:15
For now I had put forth my hand, and smitten thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou hadst been cut off from the earth:
Psalm 109:15
Let them be before Jehovah continually, That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
Proverbs 2:22
But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.
Jeremiah 10:11
Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.

General references

Job 31:29
If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him;

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